In Argentine of the end of nineteenth century, it was very important for the State (that has been feeling threaten by social disorder) to consolidate itself by installing a society and a family model. This article intends to analyse not only how charity institutions could moralize agents in some towns of centre and south of Buenos Aires province, but also the limits that the imposed controls have found in practice.In those institutions, upper class women were control transmitters over popular sectors, at the same time they found a way to exercise citizenship, although they had civil rights only like mothers.
Charity; Women; Citizenship